Bug Homes

This week with Mother Goose Time we learned about bug homes:  plants, dirt, hills, webs, and hives.  

This month we've been working on the number 9.  Elli hatched 9 "eggs" into different bugs.  She also worked on visiting all 9 chambers in the ant tunnel maze.  

We also did an experiment with freezing honey.  Elli mixed honey with different amounts of water and then predicted which would freeze first.  We checked on them throughout the days lesson until they were all frozen and then compared the results to her original guess.  This is a very easy way to start teaching kids about the scientific process.  

Elli practiced her handwriting in her my little journal, used the included cookie cutter letters to make mud cookies, and did more writing on a postcard which she decorated using one of the shape stamps from the monthly box.

And as always there were lots of crafts to be made.  This week there was a leaf picture with string and beads for inspiration, an ant hill with black bean ants, a rubber worm with lots of dirt and glue to create with, a honeycomb picture with rice babies and pom pom bees, and a make your own web project complete with jumping spider.

This week the look and find glasses were introduced to use with the monthly theme poster, Elli did some patterning, and one of the girls favorite things was pretending to be a spider and eating different insects after rolling the cube containing the insects names.  Next week we learn about camouflage bugs.